Author Topic: ceramic warpig in an ash tele? (Read 5825 times)

phil · « **on:** April 27, 2008, 06:23:29 AM »

Gday guys.
Just a quicky before I go about ordering the pickups for my telecaster project. Ceramic warpigs in an ash body, quilted maple veneer tele body (with maple bolt on neck) - how do you think they would go? I'm after a HUGE, monsterous, girthy tone from this thing haha (im also looking for it to excel in lower gain/pushed clean situations too).

Ive been using EMG81's in all of my guitars and I do enjoy them in my rig but want something even MORE aggressive for this particular guitar. Would any of you suggest any other BKP (MM, NB etc?)

I'm looking to the brown sugar to be my neck pickup also, anyone have any experience with them in high gain situations?

Thanks very much in advance!

MrBump · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2008, 09:58:09 AM »

A CPig would make for an evil Tele!

Welcome to the forum.

First, I think that both PUPs would suit (although both together would be a matter of taste, I think). Second, I'd suggest that you would need to be very careful with the balance between the 2 PUPs... they have VERY different outputs.

Nice experiment though.

Mark.

gwEm · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2008, 01:09:36 PM »

alnico warpig, piledriver neck?

the alnico warpig is acknowledged to be better clean - not that i've tried the ceramic one myself, but the alnico one is good clean.

phil · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2008, 02:06:26 PM »

Thanks for the welcome! Yeah MrBump you do make a very good point there about the output difference but i suppose its nothing that cant be solved with a clean boost (ie BB preamp/AC booster etc).

gwEm - I'm not big on alnico bridge pickups, I'm really a ceramic guy. I had considered the piledriver in the neck but once I read about the brown sugar's middy-ness it sounded right for me to go in that direction.

So yeah, do I just send an email off to the sales department stating what I would like and how I would like it?

Damn, I can't wait.

MrBump · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2008, 02:13:57 PM »

Tim (Mills, the owner) is always very free with his advice. Definitely worth your while pinging him an email via the website, he always replies promptly.

You ask a question on this forum and you'll receive a dozen different replies, all of them great. But Tim has THE ear for these things, so always go to the top, I say.

Mark.

phil · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2008, 03:17:18 PM »

yeah very true, I just wanted to gauge my ideas amongst the folk here before bothering the head honcho with my ramblings haha. I'll shoot one to him tomorrow sometime hopefully, this tele has been in production for about 2 years now - it's about bloody time I get it finished so I can show it off.

Thanks very much for your replies thus far, any more information or suggestions thrown in will be welcomed.

Ratrod · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2008, 06:03:58 PM »

A C-pig could be a little too bright/sharp in an ash Tele. The normal A5 however has this deep evil chugging sound. It would scare Jim Root.

MDV · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2008, 12:18:06 PM »

A c-pig would be great in that.

Roobubba · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2008, 02:03:55 PM »

Although the concept of a "metal" tele is one that I find deeply amusing :D

Roo

phil · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:35:08 AM »

haha yeah I thought it was great too... a classical looking tele (with bigsby haha) with the most outrageous pickup in the bridge position, but splittable so i can use it somewhat similarly to a tele.

WezV · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:42:15 AM »

i quite like the idea of a tele for metal... but ya lost me on the bigsby

gwEm · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:44:06 AM »

Quote from: WezV

i quite like the idea of a tele for metal... but ya lost me on the bigsby

i sometimes think of TO's tele and wonder to myself if i wouldn't like a piece of that action too...

Roobubba · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2008, 12:06:57 PM »

oh dear lord, no, don't start a tele/metal phase! What I meant was that teles look so, well, how can I put it? The male equivalent of carpet munching, let's put it that way. So using one for metal is kind of ridiculous in my view!!

Roo

HairyChris · « **Reply #13 on:** April 30, 2008, 01:34:36 PM »

Metal Tele?

Go for it. If it's got the right feel then that's the important thing. Turning it into a fire-breathing monster would rule.

It'll also confuse the hell out of any propective audience member which, IMO, is a GOOD THING!

Roobubba · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2008, 02:27:19 PM »

Quote from: HairyChris

Metal Tele?

Go for it. If it's got the right feel then that's the important thing. Turning it into a fire-breathing monster would rule.

It'll also confuse the hell out of any propective audience member which, IMO, is a GOOD THING!

On the one hand, I wholeheartedly agree. But on the other, you'd still be the one on the stage with a tele, and thus should rightly be the object of ridicule :)

But then I never have liked teles, so what do I know? :P